Gillibrand: ‘Immigration Is Not a Security Issue’ – ‘It Is an Economic and a Humanitarian and a Family Issue’

During a town hall with MSNBC on Monday, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) stated that she would eliminate family separations and detaining people in facilities run by for-profit prison companies and that “Immigration is not a security issue. It is an economic and a humanitarian and a family issue.”

Gillibrand said what President Trump “has done on the border is inhumane and intolerable. He is separating families, children from parents, mothers from babies, and locking up people in facilities that are run by for-profit prison companies. It’s an outrage. I would get rid of all of that. That should not be under ICE. It should not be under Homeland Security. Immigration is not a security issue. It is an economic and a humanitarian and a family issue.”

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